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1 hour agoCosby's sex assault conviction goes before high-level courtAn appeals court has questioned whether Bill Cosby’s alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young woman amounted to a “signature” crime pattern.
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2 days agoHawaii seeks to be seen as a remote workplace with a viewA group of Hawaii leaders is launching a campaign Sunday to promote the islands as an appealing location for a remote office with a view.
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3 days agoBlack firefighters in NC allege racism amid larger reckoningA group of Black firefighters in a North Carolina city has filed a grievance citing racism and discrimination they have endured for more than 30 years.
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Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes ThanksgivingAmericans are marking the Thanksgiving holiday amid an unrelenting pandemic that has upended traditions at dinner tables all around the country.
New migration maps serve as tools to help big game in WestNew maps of big game migrations in the Western U.S. will help identify where human development is getting in the way of animals on the move.
Farm Rescue shifts to help farmers sickened by coronavirusA North Dakota-based volunteer organization that helps farmers when they are injured or otherwise impaired says it has helped a number of Midwest farmers who were incapac...
Schools struggle to stay open as quarantines sideline staffContact tracing and isolation protocols meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus are sidelining school employees and frustrating efforts to continue in-person learn...
Stephen Bannon switching lawyers in border wall fund caseA prominent Washington lawyer defending President Donald Trump's former chief strategist against charges that he cheated donors to a southern border wall says he's no lon...
Some California counties winding down hotels for homelessSome California counties are pushing ahead with plans to wind down a program that's housed homeless people in hotel rooms amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Americans risk traveling over Thanksgiving despite warningsMillions of Americans are taking to the skies and the highways ahead of Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire.
Pandemic gave locals fleeting taste of a tourist-free HawaiiFor months, Hawaii locals had Waikiki's famous beaches and other tourist hot spots to themselves as a mandatory two-week quarantine on travelers curbed tourism during the...
Wiping down groceries? Experts say keep risk in perspectiveTo avoid any traces of the coronavirus that might be lurking on surfaces, Americans have been wiping down groceries, wearing surgical gloves in public and leaving mail pa...
Money promised to combat US overdose crisis sits unusedA $200 million account set aside as part of Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy case is going unused because attorneys involved in lawsuits against the OxyContin maker can't agree...
NJ man charged in $1.7M theft of armored car outside casinoDescribing it as “something out of the 1930s,” authorities say a former guard and two others stole more than $1.7 million from an armored car parked outside an Atlantic C...
